Arc
Your mobile AI assistant on any screen
Details
- External ID
- 1262686
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Brand My Arc
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 76
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.977255719478298
- Tags
- Android, Mac, Artificial Intelligence, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Arc is a free AI assistant that works on whatever screen you're already on. You don't have to copy text into a chatbot. Call Arc up over any app and it reads the screen for you. • Summarize articles, chats, emails and docs instantly • Listen: have any screen read aloud • Rewrite replies and messages in the right tone, right where you type • Automate repetitive steps across apps Available on Android and Mac. Free to start.
Enrichment
- Theme
- autonomous ai agents for business
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- on-screen mobile ai assistant for smartphones
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A basic Android app leveraging MediaProjection/Accessibility APIs to take a screenshot and query a multimodal LLM is accessible, but building a smooth, non-intrusive, cross-app overlay on iOS/Android with fast on-screen OCR has OS-level constraints.
What it would actually take: On Android, this requires integrating AccessibilityService, MediaProjection APIs, and floating window overlays (SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW), combined with on-device OCR (ML Kit) or streaming frames to a vision LLM. On iOS, screen capture across third-party apps is heavily restricted by sandboxing, requiring Broadcast Upload Extensions. Building a seamless, high-performance mobile assistant requires native mobile systems expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 127 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 128 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.
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- CLIMAX · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.